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    "id": 1030892,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1030892/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Nyamunga",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 738,
        "legal_name": "Rose Nyamunga Ogendo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. Actually, I am very surprised. If we are talking about gains and the unity of this House, then why are we identifying a particular issue that was proposed by the public of Kenya? The issue of doubling the Senate was not a matter of women; it was a matter that came from the public because the public felt that they needed more representation here. All the views that were collected were coming from the public. Secondly, if we want to enrich the gains that we have made in the presentations, then I do not think that we should be talking about the numbers; that we do not need the 47 women because that is again for the Senate. We should be looking for other issues, like how much money are we going to get so that we can do proper monitoring and evaluation? Those are the things we should be talking about. If you are giving this House information, it has to be very accurate. If you are talking about the 47 women at the National Assembly and the money that has been allocated to them, kindly go ahead and look at what is going to happen to that money because it has already been allocated. That money will not move from the National Assembly. It will go to the top up of the number of women that will be topped up after the elections are done. Therefore, that money will not move from there to any other House. What I am opposing is the fact that we want to tamper with the gains that we are making, and we must know that Kenya belongs to all of us. We need each other. I am not saying that because maybe I will be sitting here next time. I do not know where we will be sitting, but the truth is that we should make a proper law that will be beneficial to all of us. We should not tamper with any gain we have made in the BBI. We can converse or add any other thing, but not lose the gains we have made."
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